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I remember reading a little while back that if you get marked as a troll, you can continue to comment on articles but nobody else will see them but you. This m
by dcpdx 15y ago
I remember reading a little while back that if you get marked as a troll, you can continue to comment on articles but nobody else will see them but you. This makes the troll effectively a ghost, thinking they are commenting normally but really the comments are going into a void. Maybe you were incorrectly designated as such?
- wonderer 15y agoHmm, amazing if true. Seriously passive-aggressive, especially the fact that I'm not told that I've been marked as a troll. I guess some mod was unimpressed with something I said and now nobody can hear me now. Sad. At the very least this should be made known to the suspected troll on his/her profile page, and the block should be for a certain length of time, instead of being indefinite (as it seems to be in my case). I sure am happy that the HN mods don't run my govt. (Am I trolling now?)
- thaumaturgy 15y agoIt looks like it happened after you called out Spolsky for his paranoia. That particular comment was really not necessary here, but IMO, given your average score, total points, and the generally not-any-worse-than-average quality of your comments, that shouldn't have been enough to get shadowb&.
- foxit 15y agoInteresting. The problem with this moderation setup is that a real troll (that is, trolling because they enjoy the response they get) is going to catch on pretty quickly.